681 Kangeerug.--A name for Kakeerun.
682 Kalseenbie.--A name for Kalyseeb; hot and heavy; cures disorders
of mucus and bile, also disorders in the mouth.
683 Kansi.--P. Rooie; heavy, hot, and aperient; strengthens the eyes
and cures bilious and mucous disorders.
684 Kathmanda.--A name for Lisanus sowr.
685 Kalakora.--A name for Kirra Inderjow.
686 Katchloon.--A name for Muschookoonia, also named Kuphaiena, or
Mylhoolrejaje. Its taste is rough; increases bile, decreases mucus,
and useful in splenitis. It is laxative, removes specs, and opacities
of the cornea. It dries the stomach, and externally is useful in all
kinds of itch.
687 Kastipadile.--Vide Padill.
688 Kalesur or Kulesur; a plant, its leaves and sprigs very thin and
small, it is sold in a dried state. It is like the Badsingbose. Its
fruit is like the Baer, but a little larger, of a clay color or
greenish. It is of two kinds, white and black, both oleaginous and
sweet, heavy, increases semen, cures disorders of the three secretions,
fevers, disorders of the vagina, dropsy, and it is astringent in its
properties. The black kind increases appetite.
689 Kanghi.--Cool, pungent; sweetish to the taste; strengthens the
system, clears the color of the skin; is astringent, flatulent;
useful in affections of the mouth and hectic fever.
690 Kandagolhi.--A kind of onion, used by the weavers of cloth, from
which circumstance it has derived its name ("Squills?"). It is like
the common onion, but four times as large; it grows in the jungles, and
in A. is called Unsul; its properties are described in Yunani works.
691 Kapoor.--Cool, light, anti-aphrodisiac; beneficial in disorders of
the eyes; cures heat of the body, bad taste in the mouth; removes
corpulence and swellings of the body, disorders from poison,
and clears the brain. A. Kaphoor. It is of four kinds: Poonasir,
Bheemseejnie, Saasdaie and Bhaskur, the medicinal properties of all
are the same. "Laurus Camphora."
692 Kupoor.--The same as above; also called Khesia.
693 Kapoorbile.--A flower; its leaves and root resembling the saffron
flower; it is brought from Europe.
694 Goobrowla also Goobreyla. A. Khumfusa. P. Jaab. It is described
in all Yunani works.
695 Kapithar Jug.--A kind of Soorinjan; pungent, cool, and dry;
increases general heat and bile; cures disorders of blood and mucus;
also removes daad; is vermifuge, and is an antidote to poison.
696 Kupass or Kurpass. "Gossypium herbaceum." It is sweet, hot, and
light; cures disorders of wind; it is the cotton tree; some call it
cool. Its seed increases the secretion of animal milk, removes bile,
mucus, heat, thirst, fatigue, epilepsy, &c. The wild species is cool,
and increases the acuteness of taste and cures ulcers. It is also
called Karis or Karpassie.
Maadentezerrubad.
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